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When my Mum and Dad were living in London in Brixton in a top floor flat two doors away from us a bomb came through the roof, just missed our house and just missed the cot I was lying in as a 3 year old. While my Mother was expecting me she saw the Crystal Palace in London burning down and the people were eating hot chestnuts! When the 1937 Coronation was taking place my Mun put me in a blue and white dresss with long ribbons but we did not see the Coronation as my Dad was away in the army.

On the beaches at Dunkirk my Uncle Tommy and my Dad were sitting at the beach waiting to be evacuated and my Dad told Tommy "We're going" but when he looked round Tommy had been shot in the head. After Dunkirk Dad came home and become a Despatch Rider for the Royal Engineers.

During the war I was evacuated to a village in Bedfordshire and me Mum and me were billited in the same house but one day I went missing and she found me at the Signal Box at the Railway in the village and a friend she made came running to her to say that I Thelma had fallen in the pond.

After being evacuated to Bedfordshire we went to stay with my Mum and Dad's parents in Slough, Bucks and then we moved back to Colchester durng the war. We saw alot of damage being done to Colchester and I remember the doodle bugs going over Colchester. In Fairhead Road, Colchester we saw alot of Butterfly bombs coming down and just through the folly was an air raid shelter which was hit by a bomb and many people were injured.

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